She may be only 20-years-old, but Irish beauty Rozanna Purcell has accomplished a hell of a lot! From winning Miss Universe Ireland 2010 and becoming the first Irish model to be in the Top 15 of the Miss Universe contest, Roz is now living the dream in New York and has transformed in to a sexy young woman and a supermodel.
Although many would think that the Tipperary-born girl had been modeling her entire life, Roz admits that following that dream was never really a plan of hers. Of course growing up she dreamed of modeling and working in high fashion, but she left those ideas behind when it was time to leave secondary school. But Roz says modeling was always running through her veins:
"Modeling was always something I was interested in but I wouldn't have pursued it if it wasn't for someone telling me to do it! I always wanted to model when I was younger but when I got to the age when everyone was starting to go to college; I thought it was a bit un-realistic. I never planned to be a model after that, but then one day I was shopping in Dundrum shopping centre and an agent came up to me and asked me to enter a modeling competition and that's how it all started!"
However, before Roz rose to her current model status she had some tough experiences to go through. After winning Miss Universe Ireland, she faced four weeks in Las Vegas, battling against 82 other women to secure the a place in the Top 15. I ask Roz did she think she had a chance of winning the competition.
Needless to say although Roz didn't officially win the competition she definitely came away with a life-changing prize. The day after the finals Roz received a call from none other thanDonald Trump, and from that moment on her entire life would change. Donald Trump had hand-picked her to work for his modeling agency, and she was asked to move to New York.
Roz is living a seriously fast-paced life now, modeling at all hours of the day, attending events and trying to keep fit, it sounds completely different to her life in Ireland. Before entering the Miss Universe contest, Roz was studying History and Politics in UCD; it seems she's a lifetime away from those days. Roz says life in the Big Apple is tough:
"I'm working all the time and there are a lot of early mornings. But the modeling industry over there is completely different. In New York modeling is just a career, there's no real interest in their social life. It's really competitive there. There's a lot more models going for a lot more jobs and there's much more money involved."
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